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The sixth International Summer School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences is now accepting applications for this summer’s session, which will be held June 21-26, 2015, in Toronto, Canada. Graduate students and post-docs from Canada, Europe, Japan, and the U.S. are invited to apply.

The application deadline is March 11, 2015. Application instructions and complete information about the program can be found on the Summer School website.

Leading computational scientists from around the world will provide instruction in a number of topics related to high-performance computing. Meals, housing, and travel are provided. Graduate students and post-docs in all science and engineering fields are eligible. Preference will be given to those with parallel programming experience and research that benefits from using HPC systems.

The program is sponsored by Compute/Calcul Canada, the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE), and the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (RIKEN AICS).

Professor Kumar was the recipient of an OVPR Minnesota Futures grant; these seed grants help faculty advance new ideas and foster interdisciplinary research. Professor Kumar’s Futures project uses images collected by earth-observing satellites to understand changes in forest cover. This seed grant helped the Kumar group receive two additional grants: a $3.2 million grant from the Planetary Skin Institute and a $10 million “Expeditions in Computing” grant from the National Science Foundation.

Professor Kumar uses MSI to develop high-performance data-mining algorithms and tools for mining large-scale datasets in a variety of applications. The huge size of these datasets and their complexity require the use of the high-performance computing resources provided by MSI. Besides the project above, the Kumar group is also developing data-mining techniques for analyzing biomedical data.

Professor Joseph Metzger, an MSI Principal Investigator and Chair of the Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, is the Principal Investigator for a $2.6 million NIH grant that will fund research into new treatments for heart attacks. The Metzger group uses MSI for molecular dynamics simulations as part of their research into proteins that affect the contraction of the heart.

In December, Vice President for Research Brian Herman presented the annual state of University research report to the University Regents. The U’s research enterprise is strong, with growth in nearly all performance measures during FY14.

You can see VP Herman's summary of the report on the OVPR Inquiry blog. The article also includes a link to the complete report.